Cultivation: But Not a Game-Chapter 175 - 89: Magical Treasure Self-Destruction, Ruin and Bankruptcy
"Someone is causing trouble!"
Xie Fenghua, integrating the previous changes to make a guess, immediately issued an order:
"All squads spread out and find the rats hiding in the corners for me."
Then he looked at the other Loose Immortals and said solemnly:
"The ones above won’t last long. To avoid complications, let’s act directly."
Loose Immortal Qi Weifeng swallowed and said:
"If we act now, each of us will lose at least a thousand points of merit afterwards."
"So what? Merit lost can be earned back, but the Power of Heavenly Dao Laws won’t have another chance."
"Alright!"
The three made their decision, decisively sacrificing a Tier Seven Magical Treasure, overloading the treasure’s core, causing it to shake violently and emit dazzling Spiritual Light.
At this moment, blue light gathered on the water-covered surface of the Law core, quickly forming a figure with a Cyan Cloud Cover hovering in front of the Law core.
In the crowd, Xi Muchuan was shocked and shouted:
"It’s him!"
Su Yu glanced at him and withdrew his gaze, pulling out the Four Symbols Star Soul Banner and placing it before him, while also summoning the Sun Concealing Cyan Sparrow Dual Swords he had just refined, directly overloading the Flying Sword’s core.
"Boom, boom, boom!"
The three Tier Seven Magical Treasures simultaneously exploded into scorching suns that descended, instantly melting and collapsing the spirit water suppressed by the Sea-Suppressing Pearl.
At the same time, the Sun Concealing and Cyan Sparrow, the two Tier Six Flying Swords that had accompanied Su Yu for a long time, also exploded, forming slightly smaller suns.
Three large and two small suns collided and merged, the two smaller suns directly turned into void while the three larger ones also diminished and fell.
The immobilized spirit water kept melting and collapsing, while the sun’s power weakened and decreased. Observing the melting and descending speed, these spirit waters, over three hundred meters deep covering the core of the Law, couldn’t withstand the self-destructive power of three Tier Seven Magical Treasures at all.
Su Yu, without hesitation, activated the Four Symbols Star Soul Banner, injecting all 23510 mana into it. The banner expanded, and a vortex opened on the surface, surging Sword Qi flowed out.
Hundreds of Sword Qi merged like a dragon towards one sun, a fierce explosion rend all Sword Qi apart, leaving the stricken sun reduced to half.
But in the next moment, having consumed a pill to restore mana, Su Yu once again exerted all effort on the Four Symbols Star Soul Banner, unleashing a massive wave of Sword Qi, eliminating the sun that had been halved.
The remaining two suns were already falling towards Su Yu. He had a strong premonition that he absolutely couldn’t block this strike, doing so would lead to certain death.
However...
Su Yu recalled several seconds before...
At that time, he was still hesitant as to how far to interfere before retreating, but as the Celestial God Association suddenly began self-destructing their treasures, the Undying Spiritual Light, which had been silent in his mind, reacted again, just as when he obtained the Sea-Suppressing Pearl, and a panel suddenly expanded before him, showing a new task prompt:
"Prompt: Heavenly Dao Task, Guard the Cave of Ten Thousand Demons refresh point Law core. If the Law core can be successfully protected from destruction, reward 1000 merit points, 1 Heart of Heaven, 1 Heavenly Dao Magic Fragment."
No explanation was needed. Upon seeing this prompt, he instantly knew what was going on and understood what the Heart of Heaven and the Law Fragment were.
This was a reward he absolutely couldn’t refuse, regardless of the cost.
Therefore, Su Yu took a deep breath, resolutely and decisively activating the Four Symbols Star Soul Banner core, overloading it for self-destruction.
"Boom, boom, boom!"
What does it mean for a Tier Seven Precious Grade Magical Treasure filled with 108 Star Souls to self-destruct?
Unimaginable power transformed into an even larger starry radiant sun, directly engulfing the two suns formed by the self-destructed Tier Seven Magical Treasures of the two Loose Immortals, with waves sweeping across the area instantly eliminating a large swath.
"Damn!"
Xie Fenghua, who was blown hundreds of meters away by the Four Symbols Star Soul Banner’s explosion, shouted in shock and anger:
"Who are you, and why are you against my Celestial God Association?"
Qi Weifeng also shouted:
"Brother, if you leave now, my Celestial God Association is willing to offer 10000 taels of gold."
Su Yu adjusted the Cyan Cloud Cover, which had tilted due to the explosion, and said with a cold smile:
"Why do I want to be your enemy? I should be asking why you are against me? Before, why did you want to kill me without a word?"
Many Celestial God Association players were stunned and mostly confused, while some quick-witted ones asked:
"Are you from that group that was watching before?"
"I was just watching from the side; you simply needed to tell me to clear the stage, why strike without saying a word?"
Xie Fenghua, Qi Weifeng, and others who knew the truth all turned to look at Xi Muchuan with a difficult expression, opening their mouths but unable to say anything.
However, with the Five-Colored Divine Ox roaring closer overhead, they quickly came to their senses, realizing now wasn’t the time to argue who was right or wrong. Xie Fenghua asked solemnly:
"If you relent now, 10000 taels of gold will be offered, all grudges erased; otherwise, you will become my Celestial God Association’s sworn enemy. Our ten plus Loose Immortals will pursue you to the end!"
Su Yu chuckled:
"I’m so scared. I’m an official disciple of Xuanzhen Immortal Sect. Among the several brothers who were with me earlier, one is the disciple of a high master of the Immortal Sect. I’d like to see how you chase us."
"Damn it, just a mere Qi Refining disciple thinking they can’t be dealt with."
Xie Fenghua opened his mouth and spat out a large cyan cauldron, which expanded to nearly three hundred meters in the blink of an eye, with a cyan vortex emerging from its mouth and a formless force pressing down, restraining Su Yu.
Another Loose Immortal, Li Zhao, sacrificed a magnificent halberd wreathed in lightning and tossed it forcefully, causing the Cyan Cloud Cover to tremble, its defense dropping by thirty thousand instantly.
Then countless lightning exploded around the halberd, enveloping him instantly.
In the thunderstorm, Su Yu calmly activated the Immortal Spirit Stone to recover mana, injecting mana into the Cyan Cloud Cover to maintain defense, and reluctantly took out the Dragon Scale Flying Ship, sighing softly:
"The losses this time are really too great."
Looking up at the sky, he sighed:
"Guardian, why did you engage so far away? It cost me a lot."
Self-destructing a Tier Seven Flying Ship and a Tier Seven Rare Magical Treasure, along with two Tier Six Flying Swords.
"Hiss!"
Su Yu clutched his chest, feeling a deep heartache.
But at this moment, retreating was not an option; the two Tier Six Flying Swords and the Four Symbols Star Soul Banner had already self-destructed. If he pulled back now, all these losses would be for nothing.
The sunk cost was too great; he had no way out.
Fortunately, the reward for the Heavenly Dao mission was good enough to make up for all the losses and more.
Sighing lightly, Su Yu patted the Law Core behind him and shouted:
"Quick, gather several BOSSes, just gather them nearby."
However, the Law Core did not respond, suggesting to him that this thing only had instinct and no self-awareness.
If it had self-awareness, the Celestial God Association wouldn’t have been able to break in at all.
Refreshing tens of thousands of monsters every second? With self-awareness, it could completely refresh the monsters around itself for protection or just refresh larger monsters or BOSSes. Even if it refreshed just one Level 100 BOSS per second, it could easily sweep the Celestial God Association.
Judging by its lack of intelligent response, this proves that the monster’s refresh point has no self-awareness; it’s purely mechanical.
Even the Guardian controlling the refresh couldn’t be handled, otherwise, it wouldn’t have been lured away.
"Can only fight!"
Abandoning any illusions, Su Yu threw the Flying Ship in his hand, enlarging it. With a thought, he activated the already damaged Dragon Scale Flying Ship’s core source, causing the ship to shake violently. 𝗳𝚛𝗲𝕖𝚠𝚎𝚋𝗻𝗼𝕧𝗲𝐥.𝚌𝚘𝐦
"Damn, even the Tier Seven Flying Ship is self-destructing, is he insane?"
"Boom!"
The massive Dragon Scale Flying Ship shattered inch by inch, and a destructive power exploded from within, directly blasting several hundred meters above, sending a massive cauldron flying, obliterating it in a flash of exploding thunder and light, and flinging away a giant halberd.
A violent orb of destructive light swept across, a power unimaginable for ordinary players to withstand, knocking out thousands of Celestial God Association players in a single wave.
"Damn!"
Being continually blocked by a player who wasn’t even a Loose Immortal drove Xie Fenghua and other Celestial God Association Loose Immortals to extreme anger. Qi Weifeng took a deep breath and said:
"Later, I want an additional Power of Law as part of the spoils."
The others looked at the heavily cracked, dauntingly resonating halberd in his hand and nodded:
"No problem."
Qi Weifeng lifted his hand and threw the halberd with force, and it instantly broke through the air, crashing down.
However, at this moment, Su Yu had already put away the Cyan Cloud Cover and transformed into a Celestial Ghost, disappearing into the water with a Water Escape Skill.
The lightning pillars from the Tier Seven Halberd, targeting the Celestial Ghost, veered off course, crashing directly onto the Law Core, bursting into an enormous destruction lightning sphere with a diameter of over a thousand meters.
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A terrifying amount of damage exploded, and the Law Core’s health bar instantly dropped significantly, though it still had 23,100,000 remaining.
"Damn!"
The Celestial Ghost emerged from behind the Law Core, reverting to his true form and, seeing the dumbfounded faces of the Celestial God Association members, he wore a strange smile and reached out his hand:
"Sea Suppression!"
Invisible forces reinforced the spiritual water once again, summoning the Cyan Cloud Cover before the Law Core to block the sporadic attacks from the Celestial God Association players.
He wasn’t foolish; how could he directly withstand a Tier Seven Magical Treasure’s self-destruction, anyway?
Even the Cyan Cloud Cover, which came with the Cloud Protection Magic, couldn’t withstand it; besides, the magic was used once before and was still cooling down.
And even though the Law Core had no consciousness, its remaining thirty million health bar was there; it could easily withstand several big waves.
"Continue attacking!"
At this moment, Xie Fenghua received a message from Jiang Lang:
"How much longer? The Five-Colored Divine Ox has already gone down with a Qianyang Qi Bing Fire Divine Thunder Net to clean up."
Xie Fenghua looked up and saw Su Yu overwhelmed by dense attacks as the Cyan Cloud Cover swayed in the stormy onslaught, holding on for mere two seconds before being breached.
Several beams of light rose and burst, with the final Treasure Pearl rising to drop a layer of Treasure Light for defense.
He looked back at Su Yu, noting the Law Core still had 15,520,000 health remaining.
At this very moment, despair settled in his heart as he fixed a bitter gaze on Su Yu:
"It’s probably too late."
"Roar!"
A beastly bellow resounding like a bull’s came from behind, sending a wave of unease through everyone. Upon turning back, they saw a Five-Colored Divine Ox, ablaze with multicolored flames, charging towards them like a tank.
The extreme fury of the Five-Colored Divine Ox had materialized, with its five-colored fur alight in flames.
Upon entering, it opened its mouth in a thunderous bellow like a bull, dashing right to the center of the crowd like a tank.
The Celestial God Association players scattered in haste at the sight, the Loose Immortals moving even quicker. Looking back, they saw the Five-Colored Divine Ox return to the Law Core’s vicinity, unleashing a volley of divine thunder like a machine gun.
Before the Law Core, the exhausted and nearly defeated Su Yu exhaled deeply.
"Made it just in time."
